Well, I'm still interested in knowing how money "for peace" would be spent. I can come up with some interesting possibilities -- for example, bombarding hostile governments with Mrs Field's cookies in individual cartons, or hiring phone-love gals to call up the Saddams of the world and just melt them out of their antagonisms, or flooding the radical Muslims' wives with pictures of the split levels and SUVs being enjoyed by their suisters in Europe, ANZO and the US -- or maybe training a couple of buses full of eight year olds and shipping them to the Krmlin (or wherever) to meet with heads of state about how naughty they are being.

'Course if you really wanted peace, you could start a huge campaign to deny the orgnaizational force of warmaking bodies. Volunteers only, mano a mano in some desert arena big enough to dump all the fatcats and hotheads in. Put a big fence around it and let them chew each other up.

This doesn't even touch on the budget for education. Oh, documented compassion -- home videos of the abused childhood of anyone toward whom we might feel homicidal so we have to sit through their point of view before we ship out. Gunsights that put pictures of Bambi or Minnie on any target just before the trigger gets pulled.

I could go through a few zillion single handed here!! LOL!!

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